PRINTED FULL SCORES – medium voice

Title Page: A(o)

Wrapper: black on grey-green paper=tp A(o)

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–11=music; [12]=blank.

Dimensions: 325 x 264 (r=183)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vii.1905

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4471

Print run: 150

The printer's copy was the full score copied by Alma Mahler (ACF4m); no proofs have been located. The Mengelberg copy was his conducting score with annotations in red and blue pencil. It bears the manuscript metronome marking =108.

The surviving Kahnt documents (RKGMK, 172) indicate that this was the only printing of the sheets in the period 1905–15.

Title Page: Ab(o)

Wrapper: front wrapper, black on grey-green paper=tp G, frv=blank; back wrapper recto=blank, brv=Kahnt advert Ab

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; 3–11=music; [12]=blank.

Dimensions: 334 x 265 (r=183)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4471

These copies are made up of sheets of the first issue, enclosed within Kahnt wrappers probably dating from 1915–16.

Universal-Edition assigned an edition number, U.E. 3748b, to this score and two copies were ordered on 2.xii. 1918; the A-Wn copy has 3748 added in pencil on the front wrapper.  The UE Verlagsbuch records no further orders, although the medium-voice score and parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

Title Page: [none; heading on vl 1, p.1:] „Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟

Dimensions: vl, hp: 341 x 271 (r=216; 218); all these others are half folios

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vii.1905

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4472

Print run: 300 [i.e. c. 10–15 sets]

These parts were probably engraved from the manuscript set ([CO4m]) prepared for the first performance in January 1905. The surviving Kahnt documents (RKGMK, 172) indicate that there was only one printing of the parts in the period 1905–15.

Universal-Edition assigned an edition number, U.E. 3749b, to the orchestral parts; the UE Verlagsbuch ostensibly records no orders, but it seems likely that the entry against the high-voice parts was a misplaced entry for the medium-voice set. If so, two sets and five additional vn I parts were ordered on 2.xii. 1918; no further orders are recorded although the parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

Edytha ('Ditha') Moser (22 April 1883–3 November 1969) was the daughter of the industrialist Karl Ferdinand Mautner Markhof (1834–1896); she trained as an architect under Josef Hofmann at the Kunstbewerbschule, and later worked as a graphic artist until 1918.

Along with her first husband, the artist and designer Koloman Moser (1868–1918), Edytha was a member of Mahler's inner circle of Viennese friends. These proofs were one of five such gifts he presented to her, apparently at the time of her marriage to Moser (1 July 1905) and as in the other proof copies, the cover of the song bore an autograph dedication to her:

All five sets of proofs were stolen from her son, Karl Moser, in 1928, but at  least four (excluding Um Mitternacht) were recovered in 1932 and offered for sale later that year. Two sets of proofs from the set are at Stanford (Kindertotenlieder (APVmpr), and „Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen‟ (APV5h1pr)) but the other three have not yet been located. For further details, see the short essay, Lost and Found: the Edytha Moser Collection of Mahler Proofs.

Title Page: A(k)

Wrapper: none seen

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 340 x 270 (r=205)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: vii.1905

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4470

Select bibliography: SWXIII/4, EA I, p. x

The printer's copy was prepared by Josef Strohs (ACVm); no proofs have been located, but see [APV4mpr]. According to the data collated by Reinhold Kubik (RKGMK, 172), there were five printings of the song in the period 1905–1915, a total of 1500 copies: these must have all been of the medium voice version as the high- and low-voice versions of the piano-vocal score were not prepared until late 1916.

It appears likely that the next four entries relate to the other four pre-1915 printings of this transposition of the song.

Title Page: C(k)

Wrapper: [none seen]

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2=blank; 3–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert B

Dimensions: 340 x 270 (r=205)

Edition number: none  Plate number: 4470

This impression differs from the first in its use of revised versions of the title page and the advertisment on p. 6.

Title Page: C(ku)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=U.E. type A, mauve on green, text in black:] ·UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2778 / [main shield:] GUSTAV MAHLER / „ICH ATMET' EINEN LINDEN / DUFT“ / [bottom shield:] MITTEL /; [back wrapper=U.E. advert A]

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2=blank; 3–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert B

Dimensions: 344 x 272 (r=206)

Edition number: U.E. 2778  Plate number: 4470

In the absence of a date code on the rear wrapper it is not possible to directly associate this copy with any specific UE order. However, the absence of an alphabetical suffix to the edition number strongly suggests that the copy dates from before early 1916, when UE issued the high-voice version (ed. no. 2778a) for the first time. The initial order recorded in the UE Verlagsbuch has identical dates for ordering and receipt of 100 copies: this, together with the use of Kahnt-watermarked paper in the copy described suggests that the printed sheets were probably supplied from Leipzig, and UE merely provided the wrappers.

The copy described bears a rubber stamp for the Viennese music seller Albert J. Gutmann on the front wrapper.

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none  Plate number: 7487

The song has been completely re-engraved to accommodate the English translation: for further details see the entry below for the UE issue of this edition. The plate number suggests a first publication in early 1917.

Title Page: H(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=U.E. type A, mauve on green, text in black:] ·UNIVERSAL EDITION· / [small shield:] № 2778^B / [main shield:] GUSTAV / MAHLER / „ICH ATMET' EINEN LINDEN / DUFT‟ / [bottom shield:] MITTEL /; [back wrapper=U.E. advert B (no date code)]

Analysis: [1] = tp; 2–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 324 x 248 (r=178)

Edition number: U.E. 2778b  Plate number: C.F.K. 7487

The song has been completely re-engraved to accommodate the English translation and appears within a single-line rectangular border; all the tempos and performance makings have been translated into Italian, and the page dimensions are smaller than for PV4m1b. In the absence of an advert date code this copy cannot be specifically associated with either of the impressions recorded in the Verlagsbuch as having been delivered to UE up to 1918; details of the earliest are given here: even allowing for war-time conditions the delay in delivery of over a year is unusual. Possible explanations include a scribal error in the order date (two orders in the same year were uncommon) and/or a delay in supplying printing materials from the new plates.

Title Page: L(u)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Kahnt advert Ea; 3–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Bb

Dimensions: 324 x 248 (r=178)

Edition number: U.E. 2778b  Plate number: C.F.K. 7487

This copy cannot be firmly associated with either of the two UE orders placed in the 1920s. The order details given above are those of the earlier transaction.

Analysis: [1–2] missing from the copy described; 3–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Ad

Edition number: U.E. 2778b  Plate number: C.F.K. 7487

Dimensions: 324 x 248 (r=178)

Copies: GB-Lam 0002735 (this copy lacks pp. 1 and 2, and has been cut down; it may be an exemplar of the previous impression)

This copy cannot be firmly associated with either of the two UE orders placed in the 1920s. The order details given above are those of the second transaction. After this no more were placed by UE for the medium-voice piano-vocal score during the 1920s (the details of the print runs issued by C.F.Kahnt are unknown), but the UE Verlagsbuch records that in the 1930s seven small orders were placed, ranging in size from 7 to 50 copies.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – high voice

Title Page: Fa

Wrapper: [none seen - but see the notes below]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; [3]–11=music; [12]=blank

Dimensions: 335 x 265 (r=181)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: iii.1916

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7451

This arrangement was prepared by Max Puttmann, probably in 1915/6 and his manuscript (CF4h) served as the printer's copy for the published edition in which the area of printed music has a double-line printed border.

The upward transposition required some significant rescoring, the most important features of which are:

The sheets of the copy described were probably part of the original print-run, but were perhaps subsequently provided with new wrappers (which do not survive in the copy described) after the price rises in the orchestral material (late 1916).

Title Page: I(u)

Wrapper: none present in the copy described

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; [3]–11=music; [12]=[Advert: new form of Advert A, see photocopy]

Dimensions: not available

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7451

Universal-Edition assigned an edition number, U.E. 3748a, to this publication and two copies were ordered on 2.xii. 1918. The copy described is a photocopy, apparently of a hire copy available from UE. The UE Verlagsbuch records no further orders, although the high-voice score and parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

Title Page: Ja(u)

Wrapper: none present in the copy described

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; [3]–11=music; [12]=blank

Dimensions: 340 x 269 (r=181)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7451

The paper is of very poor quality, and fragile.

Hofmeister: iii.1916

Edition number: none  Plate number: 7452

Universal-Edition assigned an edition number, U.E. 3749a, to the orchestral parts; the UE Verlagsbuch ostensibly records an order for two sets and five additional vn I parts on 2.xii. 1918, but it seems likely that this was in fact a misplaced entry for an order for orchestral material for the medium-voice version. No other orders are recorded although the high-voice parts continued to be advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

FIRST PROOFS, F major - Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1915

Title Page: [none; heading on p. 3: Ich atmet [sic] einen linden Duft / (Rückert)]

Wrapper: [none]

Analysis: 3 single sided folios: 1r=3; 2r=4; 3r=5

Dimensions: not recorded

Printing method: printed directly from the plates onto thin paper

Edition number: none  Plate number: 7445

The first sheet is date stamped twice: 16.11.1915 and 22.11.1915:

Fig 1
Brandstetter date stamp on PV4hpr, fol. 1r

Pasted onto fol. 1r as a flap is a typescript note, dated 22.22.1915, from Kahnt arguing that they should not have to pay for the corrections. This has been annotated in pencil (presumably by a Brandstetter employee) pointing out that their instructions had been to send the proofs to Kahnt before Brandstetter's in-house correcting process.

These proofs are not described or listed in SWXIII/4.

Hofmeister: xii.1915

Edition number: none  Plate number: 7445

The printer's copy, prepared by Max Puttmann (CV4h1), and the first proofs (PV4hpr) survive.

The entry for this first issue in the Hofmeister Monatsbericht is accompanied by one for the high-voice version of Kindertotenlieder: the latter entry indicates that the text of the song-cycle is in German and English, but there is no such statement in the entry for „Ich atmet' einen linden Duft‟, so it is probable that only the German text was included.

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: U.E. 2778a  Plate number: [7445]

The UE issue of this edition followed on swiftly from the original issue.

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: none  Plate number: [7486]

The song was presumably re-engraved to incorporate the English translation: the plate number was probably 7486 (see the description of the issue described below), which suggests that it was published early in 1917.

Title Page: I(u)

Wrapper:  [front wrapper=U.E. type B, dark green on light green, text in black:] GUSTAV MAHLER / ICH ATMET' EINEN LINDEN DUFT / I BREATHED THE BREATH OF BLOSSOMS RED / [l.h.:] HOCH [r.h.:] / [lyre logo] / HIGH / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 2778a; [back wrapper=blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Kahnt advert E; [3]–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert B

Dimensions: 324 x 248 (r=203)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: 2778a  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7486

This order was placed on the same day as orders for the medium- and low-voice versions: in all three cases there was a delay of over a year in supplying the copies. This may reflect delays in engraving the new bilingual versions.

The association of the copy described with the order documented above is conjectural: it would be a very early use of the new UE front wrapper design, type B. However this apparent chronological inconsistency would be explicable if Kahnt merely supplied the music sheets and for some reason UE was unable to assemble the copies until rather later, when the type B wrapper was available.

Edition number: U.E. 2778a  Plate number: not known

Title Page: K(u)

Wrapper:  none present

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Kahnt advert E; [3]–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert Ba

Dimensions: 325 x 245 (r=203)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: [2778a]  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7486

The association of the copy described with this impression is conjectural: it could be an exemplar of any of the impressions dating from the early 1920s. It is worth noting that although the prices for the piano-vocal scores are as listed in title-page  I(u), those of the orchestral score and parts have increased.

Edition number: U.E. 2778a  Plate number: not known

Edition number: U.E. 2778a  Plate number: not known

Title Page: [Green on cream paper:] [Within decorative border:] CLAIRE DUX-ALBUM / LIEDER und ARIEN / aus ihrem Repertoire / [decorative device] / Revidiert / und mit Vortragsbezeichningen / versehen von / Claire Dux / [decorative device] / Herausgegeben von / Bruno Seidler-Winkler / [l.h.:] 1. BAND [centre: decorative device] [r.h.:] 2. BAND / Eigentum der Verleger für alle Länder / Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten / ED. BOTE & G. BOCK / BERLIN, W. 8 / GEGRÜNDET 1838 / [violet rubber-stamp:] Copyright 1922 by Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin. [see also the facsimile]

Wrapper:  [fwr:] Blue and gold on cream card]; [fwv, bwr, bwv = blank]

Analysis: 100pp: [1]=tp; [2]=blank; [3]=introduction by Claire Dux; [4]=Index to volume 2; [21–23]=„Ich atmet' einen Linden Duft“

Dimensions: 308 x 236 (r=181 (p. 21))

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Hofmeister: i.1923 (listed under Seidler-Winkler)

Edition number: none  Plate number: B.& B. 19201

Born in what is now part of Poland, to German parents, Dux (1885–1967) had a successful career as a widely travelled concert singer, and also on the operatic stage (at Berlin (Hofoper), London (Covent Garden), Stockholm and Chicago. By the time of World War I she certainly had Mahler's music in her repertoire, including the Second and Fourth Symphonies, Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? and „Ich atmet' einen linden Duft“. Unfortunately the introduction to the album by Claire Dux raises expectations that, at least in the case of the single Mahler item, are hardly fulfilled:

Although „Ich atmet'“ was completely re-engraved for inclusion, the new text reproduces the original in all but two respects: the omission of the upper slur in the vocal part, b. 20, and addition of 'dolciss.' over the voice part in b. 28.

Bruno Seidler-Winkler (1880-1960) was a German conductor and accompanist who, from the 1890s, was closely involved in the development of early recordings in Germany.

PV4h2g

Title Page: M(u)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1] = tp; [2]=blank; [3]–5=music; [6]=blank

Dimensions: 332 x 261 (r=204)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K. 7613

Copies: GB-Lbl H.1648.k.(8.) (green stamp: 30 JUL 64; the tract volume in which this copy is bound bears a bookplate: Presented by Mr Alexis W. Eastwood from the Library of Rena Moisenko).

The plate number is probably that assigned to the high-voice collective volume, although, interestingly, the title page makes no reference to such volumes.  The music text is enclosed within a black rectangular border, and the title page is in German and English. On balance it appears that this impression was late, and in the absence of any other evidence it has been associated with the last substantial order placed by UE. Although the copy described (GB-Lbl) is bound in a tract volume, the pages are untrimmed.

There were no more print orders placed for the high-voice piano-vocal score by UE in the 1920s (the details of the print runs issued by C.F.Kahnt are unknown), but the UE Verlagsbuch records that in the 1930s seven small orders were placed, ranging in size from 3 to 50 copies.

PRINTED FULL SCORES – low voice

Hofmeister: no listing

Edition number: none  Plate number: 8169

The low-voice full score is listed on title page type H which was apparently introduced in the winter of 1917–18, but an annotation on the manuscript score of this transposed version gives the plate number as 8169, implying that it was probably printed and published in c.1919–20: the last of the transposed versions of the songs to be issued. It is not certain who was responsible for the arrangement: the printer's copy is not in the hand of Max Puttmann. No proofs have been located, but according to another note on the manuscript the score was to be lithographed from writing.

Universal-Edition assigned an edition number, U.E. 3748c, to this score but the UE Verlagsbuch records no orders, although the low-voice score and parts were advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

Hofmeister: no listing

Edition number: none  Plate number: 8170

The plate number of the parts appears as an annotation on the manuscript score of the transposed version. Universal-Edition assigned an edition number, U.E. 3749c, to the orchestral parts but the UE Verlagsbuch records no orders, although the high-voice score and parts were advertised in UE catalogues until the late 1930s.

Hofmeister: i.1917

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7633

The printer's copy (CVt) is in the hand of Max Puttmann, who was presumably the arranger, and an annotation suggests that at an early stage a tri-lingual publication was envisaged. No proofs of this transposition have been located.

Hofmeister: no entry

Edition number: U.E. 2778c  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7633

It is not obvious what may have caused the delay in supplying the order.

Edition number: U.E. 2778c  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7633

Title Page: J(u)

Wrapper: none present

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=advertisement; 3–5=music; [6]=advertisement

Dimensions: 311 x 241 (r=173½)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: none  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7633

Over-stamped in blue on the bottom left-hand corner of the title page: Preise ungültig! / C.F. Kahnt / Leipzig

Title Page: H(u)

Wrapper: [front wrapper=UE type B, dark green on light green:] GUSTAV MAHLER / „ICH ATMET EINEN LINDEN DUFT‟ / I BREATHED THE BREATH OF BLOSSOMS RED / [l.h.:] TIEF [r.h.:] LOW / [lyre logo] / UNIVERSAL-EDITION / Nr. 2778c; [back wrapper=blank]

Analysis: [1]=tp; [2]=Kahnt advert E; 3–5=music; [6]=Kahnt advert A

Dimensions: 326 x 249 (r=173)

Printing method: Lithographic transfer from engraved plates

Edition number: U.E. 2778c  Plate number: C.F.K.N. 7633

The use of title page H(u) and the Kahnt advert A for this impression is unexpected and anachronistic. The printed area of the music text is enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. The UE Verlagsbuch record for this impression is unusual because of the significant discrepancy between the size of the original order (100 copies) and that of the batch delivered. No further orders are recorded.